Intel Slot 1 CPU Upgrade Kit - SLOT-T Performance Efficiency



For easy comparison, we use Asus P3V133 motherboard to do before and after benchmarks to make sure that enterprises/users can judge the performance improvement of the new CPU.

Testing platforms and system specs as follows:
CPU Pentium-III-S (Tualatin-512) 1266MHz
Pentium-III (Tualatin-256) 1133MHz
Celeron (Tualatin-256) 1300MHz
Pentium-III (Coppermine-256) 700MHz
Celeron (Coppermine-128) 600MHz
Motherboard Asus P3V133 (VIA VT82C693A Chipset)
Memory PC-133 SDRAM 512MB (Kingston)
VGA Card ELSA GeForce2 MX400 64MB
CD-ROM TEAC 40X
Hard Disk Drive IBM Deskstar DTLA-307030 (30GB, ATA/100, 7200PRM)
OS Windows 2000 Professional (NTFS)


 


SiSoftware Sandra 2002 - Synthetic CPU Benchmarks


SiSoftware Sandra 2002 - CPU Floating Point Performance


Content Creation Winstone 2001
Business Winstone 2001


 




After a long and restricted benchmark tests, we clearly notice that Tualatin has very powerful computing capability which is one of the excellent benefits. Because of this, Intel keep slowing down promotion for Tualatin. If they emphasize too much on the performance of Tualatin, Tualatin will obscures the performance of Pentium 4 and it will affect sales of Intel's own chipset. Hence, PC market have not reported too much about Tualatin processors.

Generally speaking, if you run the current Windows softwares, Tualatin processors will show you a satisfactory performance. However, if you need to run images and video editing softwares for a long time, you must purchase higher processor clock such as Pentium 4 2GHz or above and you must use the higher bandwidth RAMBUS memory in order to help executing softwares. Middle end Pentium 4 (1.5GHz~1.8GHz) indeed doesn't outperform Pentium-III Tualatin.

For individual/enterprises, Tualatin can completely meet your demands as it has better overall performance than mainstream Pentium 4. However, you only need to spend 1/10 of the cost for purchasing a new system. Upgrading would be the most worthwhile for individuals/enterprises.


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